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PROSPECTUS
ONE-YEAR COURSE INTEGRATING ENERGY
PSYCHOLOGY INTO PSYCHOTHERAPY
and 5 DAY FOUNDATION COURSE
2015
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WHO THESE COURSES ARE FOR
EVIDENCE
ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY IS A DEVELOPMENT
OF EXISTING THEORY AND PRACTICE
GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
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ELEMENTS ON WHICH THE COURSES DRAW
CONTENT
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SYLLABUS
GENERAL PATTERN OF TEACHING DAY
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MEDITATION AND SOCIAL DREAMING
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PERSONAL THERAPY AND SUPERVISION
COURSE DATES AND VENUE
5-DAY FOUNDATION COURSE (Part 1)
TWO TERMS OF FURTHER CLINICAL SEMINARS (Part 2)
GREEN DAYS
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ROUTES TO QUALIFICATION
COSTS
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TEACHERS
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
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TUTORIALS, ACCOUNTS OF LEARNING AND QUALIFICATION
GUIDANCE FOR CASE STUDIES
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DETAILS OF THE COURSE ORGANISERS AND TEACHERS
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APPLICATION FORM
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INTRODUCTION
The tutor group has been working on a revised structure for the Converging Streams Course.
Full details of the courses are in thIs prospectus, also available on the website
http://www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk
Retaining the same content , we have modified the format of the teaching to make it more
accessible to those in different areas of UK, those who are unable at present to commit to a
full year’s course and those who wish to take longer to qualify. This means that in addition to
the 13-day Course already planned the separate components of the course can be booked
separately.
The full 1-year Converging Streams course in Energy Psychotherapy comprising 13 days
takes place in London in 2015 (details below).
The following is a brief summary of the Converging Streams Course.
The three separate components are:
 Five-day foundation course in Energy Psychotherapy (Part 1)
 Two further terms of 1-2 day courses on separate clinical subjects (Part 2)
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Other optional ‘Green Days’ or CPD days, some more directly clinical than others,
organized by the community of energypsychotherapyworks, some with invited
teachers
WHO THESE COURSES ARE FOR
These courses in Energy Psychology are for professionals with an established practice:
psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists. We also consider on an
individual basis individuals who are close to qualifying as psychotherapists. We offer an
integration of energy psychology and the traditions and cultures of depth psychology
including Jungian, Psychoanalytic, and Humanistic and Integrative, including Transpersonal.
EVIDENCE
Research showing the effectiveness of energy methods is gaining recognition1 and growing
numbers of practitioners, having experienced the value of these for themselves, have found
them of profound benefits for their clients. Single case studies will be shared with you during
the courses.
ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY IS A DEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING THEORY AND
PRACTICE
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It furthers the trajectory of relationality with its origins in attachment theory.
It affirms Jung’s ambition for authentic embodied spirituality.
Freud’s ‘libido’ is extremely close to the concept of subtle energy that we work with
in energy psychology.2
It takes into account neuro-scientific developments.
The conception and practice of these methods radically reviews human psychology as
a part of the whole not apart from, and resonates with current pressing ecological and
eco-psychological concerns
GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
The development of the Converging Streams Course grew from our observation that many
colleagues had been deeply touched by energy psychology but were daunted by the process of
making changes in their practice. Our own experience was that the process of integrating the
new methods into practice was a substantial journey. The courses we run aim to enable
participants in their journey of integration.
Those organising the courses have gathered courage to develop more effective practice using
energy psychology through the combination of our own therapy, supervision, and attendance
at many teaching seminars, peer supervision and conversations. The structure of the course is
dialogical. As the course progresses we look forward to hearing participants’ experience of
the work, to ensuing conversations and the emergence of ideas.
For the psychotherapist using energy psychology methods there is an increased emphasis on
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Mollon P (2008) Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy Karnac UK p3
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healing and on ‘doing’ something with the patient. This changed stance of the therapist is
challenging to think through. The emerging dialogic relationship still guides the work.
Elements and capacities of the imaginal, unconscious and synchronistic realities are
significantly enhanced, often in a remarkable way. With the skill of an experienced
psychotherapist, the energy techniques therefore enable both depth and effective help for the
client. This has fired our enthusiasm.
While we as therapists have sometimes been cautious, even anxious, about introducing these
ways of working, our clients have most often welcomed them; their energy systems have said,
'Yes!'
The remarkable changes brought about by energy therapies that we observe clinically have
theoretical consequences. We need the participation and conversations of a larger group of
experienced therapists to explore these. We hope that these courses will, in time, add to the
collaborative thinking that is already taking place.
ELEMENTS ON WHICH THE COURSES DRAW
The field of Energy Psychology consists of many small groupings3. Our learning has been
mainly with
 Asha Clinton’s Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT)
 Phil Mollon’s Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (PEP)
 Howard Brockman’s Dynamic Energetic Healing (DEH)
 Gary Craig’s Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
 Roger Callahan’sThought Field Therapy (TFT)
 Tapas Fleming’sTapas Acupuncture Technique (TAT)
Acronyms abound! For all of these founders and methods we are profoundly grateful. Our
own orientation is not towards the creation or the advocating of a brand.
CONTENT
 The courses will teach core skills to enable an experience of working with energy,
accessing the subtle energy system of meridians, chakras and biofields
 The course will introduce you to the many valuable bodies of knowledge in the
energy psychology field on which to draw and support your process as you develop
an understanding of the theory and learn how to put it into practice.
 Experienced practitioners will illustrate energy methods, presenting case material,
followed by discussion.
 You will learn methods of addressing the psyche/spirit/body system using techniques
of ' energy' or 'muscle’ testing taken from kinesiology.
 You, and through you your clients, will learn to identify and clear from the energy
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system problems and blockages that inhibit people’s growth and development.
SYLLABUS FOR THE YEAR
In the first term (Part 1) there will be a particular emphasis on basic skills.
Energy/Muscle Testing
Basic understanding of Chakras, Meridians and Biofields
Identifying and treating energetic disorganisation
Dealing energetically with ‘Reversals’ ie Internal Objections to healing and change
Working with chakras and meridians, beginning with simple interventions and then
discerning those with more complexity
Letting the energy centres/points ‘speak’, free association
Working with aspects of a problem/complex and its early and wider roots
Working with underlying belief structures
History of Energy Psychology
Mapping the field
Ethical Issues
Issues of touch
Healing and Intention
Working with the ‘positive’, health not pathology
Two days on working with parts, levels, archetypes.
Deeper Considerations of Muscle Testing
Two days on working with the psychosomatic issues
Therapist self care
GENERAL PATTERN OF TEACHING DAY
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Reading prior to seminar
Meditation or social dreaming to start
Teaching of theory and skills and philosophy
Case presentations by experienced practitioners
Demonstrations
Practice of methods in pairs
Presentation and discussion of course members’ emerging clinical experience (as
course develops)
Discussion and questions
MEDITATION AND SOCIAL DREAMING
The reason we include meditation and social dreaming as part of the course is that the lifelong work of the psychotherapist is the development of presence to tacit knowledge present in
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symbol and metaphor of deep process.4
Meditation is a discipline that contributes to the stillness required for presence to the life of
deep processes. There are many different forms of meditation that have been designed for
different purposes. The approach to meditation that we will use on the course is based on
working with the heart and the breath. This practice fosters a sense of presence-presence to
the body, the mind, the emotions and to the subtle energy field.
Social dreaming is a practice that has deep and old roots, recently brought to consciousness
by Gordon Lawrence. (For more information go to www.socialdreaming.com)
In social dreaming people tell dreams and free associate to them. There is no obligation to
bring a dream; the work is to be in the imaginal space. It’s a way of approaching our subject,
the theme of a teaching day, with right-brain apprehension5 The dreams in the matrix are not
interpreted, they are regarded as belonging to the matrix not to the individual, in this case the
matrix of the day's teaching and learning.
The intentionality of the preparations made by teachers and students for a particular day's
subject will elicit a response in the deep processes to be found in dreams and associations
which then inform and enrich the days’ work.
PERSONAL THERAPY AND SUPERVISION
Because the courses are for those with an established practice in psychotherapy or counselling
we make the assumption that students share with us that the foundation of work with clients
and understanding theory is personal experience.
To integrate energy psychology into your practice you need experience of therapy using the
methods. How this happens is in your hands. Longer sessions of less frequency can work
because you will have done considerable work on yourself. We have in mind the relative
scarcity of therapists working in this way, and the constraints of distance. Some therapists
work by Skype.
Supervision can take place face to face or via Skype sessions, individually or small group
supervision. Our experience is that supervision is the key to successfully integrating energy
psychology into your practice.
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We hesitate to use 'unconscious' as a noun; we from a left brain orientation may be
unconscious of deep process, it does not seem appropriate to designate deep process as
unconscious! The phrase 'tacit knowledge’ is taken from Polyani, M. The Tacit Dimension
RKP 1967
5 The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist Yale 2009
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We do strongly recommend you have your own therapy beforehand as well as during the
courses and find regular supervision of your practice. The costs to you of your own therapy
and supervision will be in addition to course fees
COURSE DATES AND VENUE
(RESTRUCTURED END OCTOBER 2014)
Retaining the same content, we have modified the format of the teaching to make it more
accessible to those in different areas of UK, those who are unable at present to commit to a
full year’s course and those who wish to take longer to qualify. This means that in addition to
the 13-day Course already planned, the separate components of the course can be booked
separately.
The full 1-year Converging Streams course in Energy Psychotherapy comprising 13 days
takes place in London in 2015.
The three separate components of this are:
 Five-day foundation course in Energy Psychotherapy (Part 1)
 Two further terms of 1-2 day courses on separate clinical subjects (Part 2)
 Other optional ‘Green Days’ or CPD days, organized by the community of
energypsychotherapyworks, some with invited teachers
FIVE-DAY FOUNDATION COURSE IN ENERGY PSYCHOTHERAPY (Part 1)
This will provide a foundation to begin practice with clients, supported by supervision and
personal energy psychotherapy.
Teaching to include:
What is energy?, the human energy system, energy testing, disorgansiation and reversals and
how to correct them, a chakra treatment, energy routine for self care, meridians and EFT,
finding deeper origins of problems, energetic boundaries, working with positive and negative
beliefs, intention, and more….
These will be attended by:
 those who have applied for the 13 day 1 year course
 others who may be interested in a shorter course
 others who may be interested in a longer course but at a different pace
London 2015: 10+11th January, 31st Jan+1st February, and 7th March
West Midlands (Leamington Spa) 14-15th February, 14-15th March, 25th April
South West Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire (4 miles SE of and just outside Swindon)13th -15th
March (Friday teaching 2-8pm) and 25-26th April
TWO TERMS OF FURTHER CLINICAL SEMINARS (Part 2)
The present qualifying programme in London 2015 has clinical seminars scheduled
(Term 2) 9th May, 13+14th June, 11th July
(Term 3) 10th October, 14+15th November, 12th December
These seminars comprise Part 2 of the course and include:
finding a code for meridians and chakras (Phil Mollon’s Psychoanalytic Energy
Psychotherapy), working with psychosomatic conditions, archetypes, approaches to healing,
spiritual trauma and more. Further details of specific topics and dates will be sent out shortly.
These will be attended by those booked on the 13-day course
and are also open to:
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Those interested in a particular topic who have some experience of energy
psychology techniques
Those engaged in a flexible route to qualifying
GREEN DAYS
These are days or weekends for CPD for the whole energypsychotherapyworks community
and wider. The programme for 2015-2016 will be available shortly
These can be attended by
 Those booked on the course (optional but included in course fee)
 Those interested in a particular topic
 Those engaged in a flexible route to qualifying
ROUTES TO QUALIFICATION
There are now 2 routes to qualification
a) A 13-day scheduled programme in 2015. Individuals who engage in this
programme also receive termly individual tutorials, and their tutor’s response to
accounts of learning and case studies
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b) A flexible route which allows practitioners who have completed the 5-day
Foundation programme to elect to take part in 8 further clinical seminars over
subsequent terms. In addition to the cost of each seminar there will be a termly
fee of £75 after the foundation term to cover administration, termly individual
tutorials and tutors response to accounts of learning and case studies
COSTS
SCHEDULED FULL YEAR COURSE
£1950 (£1900 if attended Intro Day)
includes 13 course days of training
free attendance at Green Days6
termly individual tutor sessions
response from tutor to first term account of learning, final account of learning and case studies
Not included:
Supervision Personal Therapy
FLEXIBLE ROUTE TO QUALIFYING
5-day foundation course £720 (£670 if attended Intro Day)
Course training days £130/day
Clinical Green Days £130/day
Qualification track fees £75 per subsequent term
TOTAL COST ESTIMATE £1995 if take 4 terms in total
Other Green Days £80/day
includes 5 days foundation course
termly individual tutor sessions
response from tutor to first term account of learning, final account of learning and case studies
Not included: Green Day attendance, Supervision, Personal Therapy
5-DAY FOUNDATION COURSE (taken as stand alone)
£720 (£670 if attended Intro Day)
includes 5 days foundation course
one individual tutor session
response from tutor to first term account of learning
Not included: Green Day attendance , Supervision, Personal Therapy
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This would not include major conferences or several-day workshops similar to the Brockman events
in June 2013 and 2014 , though we have and will offer significant discounts on these.
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TEACHERS
Those teaching the courses will be experienced psychotherapists who have integrated energy
psychology into their practice. They will include Ruthie Smith, Elizabeth Simpson, Heather
Redington, James Barrett and Judith Anderson (further details at end of the prospectus) We
expect Phil Mollon to teach PEP.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Attendance at seminars
If for reasons beyond your control you are unable to attend a particular seminar, we will
make the course material available to you. If you need to make up particular skills taught,
depending on your experience, you may need to arrange a separate (paid) session with a
course teacher.
Strong recommendation for personal therapy with a psychotherapist/counsellor using energy
methods
Supervision with an experienced psychotherapist/counselor using energy methods; frequency
of this to be discussed with your tutor.
Presentation of work (see Assessment Process)
A certificate of completion will be offered at the end of the course if all requirements were
met; you would then be eligible for listing on the Energypsychotherapyworks website.
TUTORIALS, ACCOUNTS OF LEARNING AND QUALIFICATION
Tutorials.
Your tutor will be one of the course organisers. We suggest you meet with your tutor
once in each term, either face-to-face, telephone or Skype. The cost of this is
included in the course fee.
Accounts of Learning and Qualification.
The Foundation course Part 1 will require a written account of your learning after it is
finished and, for those who wish the qualification that Energypsychotherapyworks offers, a
final written account of your learning and two case studies at the end. The organising
committee will hold responsibility for giving a ‘Pass’ in response to you having demonstrated
integration of energy psychology into your practice. Completion will enable you to have your
name on the practitioners’ list of our website energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk if you so
choose.
Learning in psychotherapy occurs through the integration of personal learning, theory
and work with clients.
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The process then is as follows:
At the end of Part 1 of the course
 You make an account of your learning, which includes your experience at
seminars, as a client/patient (with appropriate confidentiality boundaries), and
in supervision.
 You give this account to your tutor.
 Your tutor will discuss this with you and give you a written response to what
you have written.
The tutor will not be making an assessment of you, he or she will be responding to
what you have written. This important distinction is to incise in everyone’s
minds that your learning process is at the centre of the course, and to the extent it
can be known (some matters that have been learnt may only become apparent long
after the course is over) it is only you who can make it known if you choose to do
so.
At the end of the course
 Your prepare 2 case studies, which you will probably wish to discuss with
your supervisor before final submission.
 If you consider that you have integrated methods of energy psychology into
your practice please ask your supervisor to write to the organising committee
to confirm this with a copy to yourself.
 You make an account of your learning, which includes your experience at
seminars, as a client/patient (with appropriate confidentiality boundaries), and
in supervision also reflecting on your supervisor’s report7 and the preparation
of the 2 case studies. In this final assessment of your learning you will need to
address in particular your integration of the energy methods into your practice
and make a formal statement that in your view you have, or have not managed
to do so.
 Your tutor will respond to this account in the same way as described above.
 Both your account, the tutor's response, the 2 written case studies and your
supervisor’s report will be read and considered by the course organisers to
help the tutor in his/her role. If the student is, or has been, in therapy with a
one of the course organisers, that person would absent themselves from
discussions.
 The organising committee will give a certificate which will state that you have
attended the course and fulfilled your intention to integrate methods of energy
psychology into your practice.
GUIDANCE FOR CASE STUDIES
The following guidelines, whilst not prescriptive, may be helpful for you to consider.
We suggest you include:
 synopsis of client’s history, and, if you have worked with someone previously
in therapy, before using energy psychology the progress made so far
 identification and treatment of disorganization and dehydration
 identification and treatment of Reversals
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ways in which you have used energy testing e.g ND&D, finding an origin or
guiding the treatment plan
use of specific energy therapy methods and why they may have chosen
specific examples of treatment phrases including an understanding about the
origins of trauma and treatment of origins where appropriate
your observations of the effects of energy therapy, showing evidence of the
change as a result of the energy intervention.
your reflections on your integration of energy methods within your existing
core therapy theoretical modality
DETAILS OF THE COURSE ORGANISERS AND TEACHERS
Ruthie Smith is a Psychoanalytic Attachment Based Psychotherapist who worked for 10
years as a Principal Individual Psychotherapist in the NHS, and prior to that, at the Women’s
Therapy Centre. She teaches on a number of psychotherapy training programmes, including at
the Bowlby Centre and the Minster Centre, and also teaches and supervises AIT (Advanced
Integrative Therapy) in the UK and abroad. She is a regular speaker at events organized by
Confer. Ruthie works in private practice at The Flame Centre in London as a psychotherapist
and supervisor. Her other passions include music (jazz and classical), contemporary
spirituality, astrology and energy work generally
Judith Anderson has practiced as a Jungian Analytical Psychotherapist for over 17 years,
beforehand working in the NHS as a Consultant Psychiatrist, informed in her practice by
ideas drawn from attachment and relational theory. She trained in AIT attending many of the
Advanced Seminars. Subsequently she has trained in PEP. In her experience these are
beautifully elegant methods that may facilitate the healing of trauma in all its aspects and
forms and can be integrated into any model of psychotherapy. She was Chair of the steering
group of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR) for 7 years.
www.pcsr.org.uk and is on the steering group of the Climate Psychology Alliance.
James Barrett an experienced Jungian Analytical Psychotherapist working with individuals
and couples in private practice in Leamington Spa. He learned his practice of energy
psychology principally from Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy and Advanced Energy
Psychotherapy and also from Emotional Freedom Therapy and Thought Field Therapy.
He co-founded the training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy at the West Midlands
Institute for Psychotherapy in 1991. He has chaired the WMIP, the Confederation for
Analytical Psychology, and the Training Standards and Membership Committee of the
Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis at the UKCP.
Heather Redington is a UKCP integrative psychotherapist in private practice. She also
worked for over twenty years as a family therapist in an NHS service for child and adolescent
mental health (CAMHS). Some years ago she became interested in the new field of energy
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psychology and trained in various modalities (EFT,TFT and TAT) She is an AIT teacher and
has taught AIT Basics in the Uk and in Ireland. In her private practice currently she draws on
a number of energy psychology modalities. She is also a teacher of Heart Rhythm Meditation,
a practice which has its roots in Sufism.
Elizabeth Simpson joins the teachers in the West Midlands. She trained in Jungian
Analytical Psychotherapy with WMIP and is in private practice in Leamington Spa. She has
been active in the Institute including three years as chair. She published two analytic papers
and was Editor of the Institute Journal for three years. She was a founder member of the
Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis, and chaired its Training Standards
Committee for three years, helping to review and update the national training standards. She
has trained in AIT, PEP and more recently has been interested in Dynamic Energetic Healing
(DEH), which incorporates shamanic methods into energy psychology, and uses all these
approaches in her practice.
She believes that patients are very open to new ideas and approaches in the work, and that it
is the wariness of the practitioner, which needs addressing. She feels that the need to defend
orthodoxy has done the profession and the public no great service. She is currently writing a
book for trainee counselors and psychotherapists in whom she hopes to encourage greater
openness and freedom of spirit as they start out on their new road.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION
Please feel free to contact any of the organisers:
Judith Anderson 01926 421524 judith.anderson@btinternet.com
James Barrett 01926 316178 james.barrett1@btinternet.com
Heather Redington 01793 762939 hc.redington@googlemail.com
Ruthie Smith 07971 964438 ruthie.efsmith@gmail.com or ruthie@theflamecentre.co.uk
APPLICATION FORM
(you may wish to use the headings on this form electronically to take as much space as you
need for the responses)
Name
Gender
Address
Age
Phone nos
Email
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Contact no of next of kin in case of emergencies
Professional Associations
Most important theoretical influences/perspectives
Brief description of current practice
Training Organisation
When Qualified
Previous experience of Energy Psychology
Whether part of practice now
What has drawn you to this course?
If this feels meaningful – what are your intentions for this course?
Please attach a copy of your psychotherapy qualification and current membership registration
and send to Judith Anderson 94 Upper Holly Walk, Leamington Spa, CV32 4JP or email
judith.anderson@btinternet.com with a cheque in post for £100/£50 if attended
Introductory Day made out to energypsychotherapyworks, the first instalment of the course
fee and deposit.
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